The random musings of someone in his fortieth years, trying to live up to the cliché that life is about to begin......

Sunday, 8 June 2014

Kids today eh?

As I ran (yes ran, managing to run over 3
miles without stopping, or passing out these days) round my local park today, I
came across some people looking at a shopping trolley that had been thrown in
some bushes. I can’t be certain (as of course I ran past them so quickly, a
blur of black overstuffed lycra) but they were certainly not happy at what they
saw, and I can imagine a ‘bloody kids’ conversation was being had.

As I continued on my run I could not get
the image out of my head, and how I wished I’d stopped to join in the on (what
I imagine were Daily Mail readers) conversation.

I would have stopped and said, “Kids today
eh? Shocking, throwing this trolley in the bushes of a beautiful public park
that our taxes pay for. Lazily throwing this trolley into the bushes, when
there is a perfectly good river and pond, just yards away! I blame those
Playboxes they are always glued to, and them Cleverphones, making them lazy,
back in my day we knew where to hurl our stolen trolley’s, always in water,
never a bush! No respect for tradition, kids today eh?”

I would have then jogged on, leaving my
elderly fellow park users bemused, and maybe fondly remembering the image of a
rusting shopping trolley in a beloved park water feature from their past, a
tear forming in the cornet of their eye…..

Not condoning leaving shopping trolleys in
parks, but at least it shows they were out the house getting some fresh air and
exercise, and not shooting zombie’s on their Playbox…..

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2011 will be my fortieth year on this planet, and I can’t shake the feeling that it’s way too premature! I have lived a good life, in fact too good for my own good, but there is much I have yet to do, and much I am not sure I should do. This blog will be a log of how I will attempt to make my fortieth year, my best one yet, a reflective look of what I’ve done, and what I still hope to accomplish with my life, whilst desperately trying not to sound like I’m having a mid-life crisis, but you can be the judge of that....